Ryan Brooks
Staff Software Engineer at Sentry
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Brooks is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building consumer and developer-facing products, currently shaping backend and observability tooling at Sentry after Sentry acquired his YC-backed startup Emerge Tools. He previously engineered scalable systems at Airbnb and built a mobile app, 7 Weeks, that amassed over one million downloads across Android and iOS, demonstrating product instincts alongside deep technical craft. Ryan’s background spans founding early-stage startups, mobile engineering, and AI pipeline work, giving him a rare blend of hands-on implementation and product-focused ownership. Based in Seattle, he combines startup grit with large-team experience and a track record of shipping impactful, user-facing software.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyPinecrest Academy High School
English
Github Skills (64)
timber10
kotlin10
monitoring10
error-logging10
android-gradle-plugin10
sentry10
monitor10
spring10
python10
logback10
stripe10
django10
plug10
android-sdk10
bytecode-manipulation10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
EmergeTools/emerge-android
May 2023 - Apr 2026
Android tooling & gradle plugin for Emerge's size analysis, end-to-end snapshotting, Reaper dead code detection and performance testing
Contributions:86 releases, 211 reviews, 534 PRs in 2 years 11 months
androiddeadcodegradle-pluginperformance-testingsize-analyzer
EmergeTools/purchases-android
Jul 2024 - Oct 2025
Android in-app purchases and subscriptions made easy.
Contributions:3 reviews, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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